Supported by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) – with assistance from the Kenneth S. and Faye G. Allen Endowed Library Fund – library staff and student interns in Seattle, Vancouver and Beijing identified, catalogued and preserved thousands of books, manuscripts, rubbings and original art. We had the honor of hosting Professor Boyue Yao, from the Peking University Library to lend his considerable rare book expertise to the project, working both on the UW and UBC campuses.

Now these once “undiscoverable” materials are available to scholars at UW and across the country, and, in a reciprocal arrangement, the China Academic Library and Information System’s (CALIS) Chinese Rare Books Union Catalog makes these materials accessible to scholars in China, while UW users can access the broad and rich resources of the CALIS Union Catalog.

Learn more about the more than 4,000 students, alumni, staff and faculty from the University of Washington who served. They are recognized in this exhibit of papers, personal diaries, photographs, artifacts and ephemera. The 58 individuals who were war casualties are permanently honored on two obelisks at the north entrance to campus and along Memorial Way.